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Women are affected by alcohol more rapidly because they tend to have a higher proportion of body fat than men. As fat cannot absorb alcohol, it is concentrated at higher levels in the blood. Women also have less of a gastric or stomach enzyme (dehydrogenase) that metabolizes or breaks down alcohol before it enters the bloodstream. Because of this, women absorb up to nearly 30% more alcohol into their bloodstream than men of the same height and weight who drink the same amount of alcohol. Women are also usually shorter and lighter than men, further concentrating alcohol in their blood. Therefore, when women of average size consume one drink, it will have almost the same effect as two drinks do for the average-size man. If women eat little or skip food entirely, that compounds the effects of drinking alcohol.
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Why does alcohol affect men differently then women?
Because men have a stronger matabilizm the women do so they can consume more than women as their body takes it in better and women have difference organs to men in which deal with alcohol differently to how mens organs deal with alcohol. -women are
Do women naturally have more fat tissue than males?
Women have a higher amount of body fat, but it is not a distinctly separate layer.
Why Alcohol can flow easily but not honey?
because honey has a higher viscosity than water and is therefore thick... there fore water flows faster than honey
Is ethyl alcohol better antibacterial than isopropyl alcohol?
iso-propyl alcohol
Why is water mixed alcohol lighter than fresh water?
The density of alcohol is less than that of water.
Do women have a higher BAC?
Women are generally smaller than men, and they produce less of the enzyme that breaks down alcohol. For those reasons, most women will have a higher BAC than the average male if they both drink the same amount of alcohol.
Why do women tends to reach an higher BAC level than men?
Less of an enzyme that helps metabolize alcohol and a higher proportion of fat, which concentrates alcohol in the bloodstream.
If a man and women of same weight cosume the same amount of alcohol?
The woman will have a higher blood alcohol concentration than the man for physiological reasons.
How do men eliminate alcohol faster than women?
Men generally have more muscle mass and higher levels of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, which helps break down alcohol in the body. As a result, men tend to metabolize alcohol faster and eliminate it from their system more quickly than women.
Why do women have a higher blood alcohol content than men do after consuming the same amount of alcohol?
Men and women have different body chemistry and alcohol affects men and women differently. Women typically have less body mass than male counterparts and carry more water weight than men, BAC is affected by both of those two factors heavily.
Do males have a higher allowance than females?
Depends on thier jobs
How come men are allowed more units of alcohol than women?
It's not sexist but purely biological. Alcohol affects woman faster as they have a higher proportion of body fat than men. Fat cannot absorb alcohol so it is more concentrated in a woman's blood. Women have less of the stomach enzyme dehydrogenase that breaks down alcohol. A woman will absorb almost 30% more than a man her own size because of this. Also, more obviously, women are often shorter and lighter than men meaning a higher concentration of alcohol.
Would the blood alcohol be the same for a man and women who weight the same and drink the same?
No, even though they weigh the same men and women have a different body chemistry. Men have a higher percentage of their mass as water than men so alcohol affects them less than women.
What Men's bodies contain more than women so they can consume slightly more alcohol to reach the same BAC?
Males have higher amounts of the dehydrogenase enzyme, so males can eliminate alcohol faster. Men also have more water in their bodies than women so they can dilute alcohol faster.
Men's bodies contain more than women so they can consume slightly more alcohol to reach the same BAC?
Males have higher amounts of the dehydrogenase enzyme, so males can eliminate alcohol faster. Men also have more water in their bodies than women so they can dilute alcohol faster.
Men's bodies contain more what than women so they can consume slightly more alcohol to reach the same BAC?
Males have higher amounts of the dehydrogenase enzyme, so males can eliminate alcohol faster. Men also have more water in their bodies than women so they can dilute alcohol faster.
Males can eliminate alcohol from their bodies faster than women due to having higher amounted of?
the dehydrogenase enzyme
